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The Horizon of Evo Morales’ Long Decade in Power: Implications of Bolivia’s Referendum Results

Benjamin Dangl February 25, 2016 Benjamin Dangl

Bolivian President Evo Morales lost the referendum last Sunday that could have given him the ability to run for re-election in 2019. The margin was small, but the implications are huge: Bolivia’s longest standing and most popular president finally has an end date for his time in power, on January 22, 2020. The Bolivian left and its vibrant social and indigenous movements were always bigger than Morales, and Sunday’s referendum results underline this.

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Articles by Benjamin Dangl

Benjamin Dangl February 12, 2016 Benjamin Dangl

Benjamin Dangl is the editor of Toward Freedom. He has worked as a journalist throughout Latin America for over a decade, and is the author, most recently, of Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America (AK Press). He teaches journalism at Champlain College and is a doctoral candidate in Latin American history at McGill University.

Below are the collected articles Dangl has written for Toward Freedom:

After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, IMF Admits Neoliberalism a Failure read more

Should Henry Kissinger Mentor a Presidential Candidate?

Medea Benjamin February 12, 2016 Medea Benjamin

At the February 11 Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a spirited exchange about an unlikely topic: the 92-year old former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Sanders berated Clinton for saying that she appreciated the foreign policy mentoring she got from Henry Kissinger. “I happen to believe,” said Sanders, “that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.”

Big Oil Uses Toxic Chemicals to Clean Up Spills. Will the Feds Finally Make Them Stop?

Lisa Katzman February 9, 2016 Lisa Katzman

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and setting off the worst oil spill in US history. The images are unforgettable: The Gulf of Mexico on fire. Pelicans emerging from the water entirely covered in thick, black oil. Planes flying overhead, spraying more than a million gallons of an oil-dispersing chemical called Corexit in an attempt to control the spill.

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If Ramadi Is What ‘Victory’ Against ISIS Looks Like, We’re in Trouble

Tom Engelhardt January 29, 2016 Tom Engelhardt

Source: Tom Dispatch

City by city, state by state, the Middle East is being laid to waste — and then we’re bombing the rubble.

One of the charms of the future is its powerful element of unpredictability, its ability to ambush us in lovely ways or bite us unexpectedly in the ass.

Most of the futures I imagined as a boy have, for instance, come up deeply short, or else I would now be flying my individual jet pack through the spired cityscape of New York and vacationing on the moon. And who, honestly, could have imagined the Internet, no less social media and cyberspace (unless, of course, you had read William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer 30 years ago)? read more